Apr 13, 2007
Range in Pricing of Commercial Learning Management Systems
My last two blog posts examined the change in average pricing for learning management systems from 2005 to 2007. It’s easy to make the mistake and assume that average pricing means that all systems cost about the same. This is true for commodity goods and services like peanut butter, Web hosting, and cellular phone plans. But, in the world of enterprise software, the price difference between the least to most expensive system is extraordinarily large.
The charts below indicate cumulative, three-year pricing for installed LMS implementations of various sizes.
500 users:
10,000 users:
25,000 users:
100,000 users:
What’s encouraging for LMS buyers, and is displayed in these charts, is that the vast majority of systems price at the lower end of the scale. A small number of systems are much more expensive than the norm and raise the overall average price substantially.
